Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 9:24 PM
From: "Stuart Henderson" <stu@spacehopper.org>
> I don't think so.

OK, thanks. I won't pester anyone then! :)

> So you need to install multiple copies of a bunch of commom libraries?
> This doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Yeah, thats fair. It tends to be against most advice admittedly.
However in some ways when a package drags in hundreds of tiny
dependencies, it kind of starts to feel like it is no longer served
perfectly well by a package manager. Everything is in such small
little bits that you might as well be dealing with standard files
again.

So much of the cruft I simply don't want "installed" in my /usr/local
(or anywhere else) at all. This is a compromise since current
software (especially GUI) drags in so much of this stuff! As a
slight bonus, I can have multiple versions of a package without
resorting to a chroot or recompile and I get a weird sense of
satisfaction when I blow it away via a simple rm -r -f. Reminds me
of the good ol' days of early Mac OS X software.

Would I use it on my servers? Nah ;). Typically software of that
nature has less dependencies anyway.

Karsten